Sunday, May 26, 2013

Workplace Safety & Health Act subsidiary legislation


Workplace Safety & Health Act subsidiary legislation

S/no
Subsidiary legislation
 

Applicable workplaces
1
Factories
2
All workplaces
3
All worksites
4
All workplaces
5
All workplaces
6
All workplaces
7
Premises owned by the Singapore Armed Forces and domestic premises
8
All workplaces
9
-
10
-
11
Factories
12
Shipyards and ships in harbour
13
Factories
14
All workplaces
15
All workplaces
16
All workplaces
17
Factories
18
All workplaces
19
All workplaces
20
All workplaces 
21
All workplaces
22
All workplaces

 
Factories Act subsidiary legislation

The following Factories subsidiary legislation will be reviewed and promulgated

as new Workplace Safety and Health subsidiary legislation.


S/no
Factories Act subsidiary legislation
 
1
2
3

 

Saturday, May 25, 2013

Approved Codes of Practice- updated 2012


WORKPLACE SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT (CHAPTER 354A)
WORKPLACE SAFETY AND HEALTH
(APPROVED CODES OF PRACTICE) NOTIFICATION 2012
In accordance with section 40B(3) of the Workplace Safety and Health Act
(Cap. 354A), the Workplace Safety and Health Council hereby notifies that the
Council has approved the Codes of Practice set out in the Schedule, with effect from
12th November 2012.

S/no

Approved Codes of Practice

Year

Published

1

Code of Practice for Working Safely at Height 2011

 

2011

2

Code of Practice on WSH Risk Management 2012

 

2012

3

Code of Practice on Safe Lifting Operations in the Workplaces

 

2011

4

SS 98: Specification for Industrial safety helmets

 

2005

5

SS 280: Specification for Metal scaffoldings

Part 1: Frame scaffoldings

 

2006

6

SS 280: Specification for Metal scaffoldings

Part 2: Modular scaffoldings

 

2009

7

SS 311: Specification for Steel tubes and fittings used in

tubular scaffolding

 

2005

8

SS 473: Specification for Personal eye-protectors

Part 1: General requirements

 

2011

9

SS 473: Specification for Personal eye-protectors

Part 2: Selection, use and maintenance

 

2011

10

SS 497: Code of Practice for Design, safe use and

maintenance of gantry cranes, overhead travelling cranes

and monorail hoists

 

2011

11

SS 508: Specification for Graphical symbols — Safety

colours and safety signs

Part 1: Design principles for safety signs in workplaces and

public areas

 

2004

12

SS 508: Specification for Graphical symbols — Safety

colours and safety signs

Part 3: Safety signs used in workplaces and public areas

 

2004

13

SS 510: Code of Practice for Safety in welding and cutting

(and other operations involving the use of heat)

(Formerly CP 50)

 

2005

14

SS 511: Code of Practice for Diving at work

 

2010

15

SS 513: Specification for Personal protective equipment —

Footwear

Part 1: Safety footwear

 

2005

16

SS 513: Specification for Personal protective equipment —

Footwear

Part 2: Test methods for footwear

 

2005

17

SS 514: Code of Practice for Office ergonomics 2005

 

2005

18

SS 528: Specification for Personal fall-arrest systems

Part 1: Full-body harnesses

2006

 

2006

19

SS 528: Specification for Personal fall-arrest systems

Part 2: Lanyards and energy absorbers

 

2006

20

SS 528: Specification for Personal fall-arrest systems

Part 3: Self-retracting lifelines

 

2006

21

SS 528: Specification for Personal fall-arrest systems

Part 4: Vertical rails and vertical lifelines incorporating a

sliding-type fall arrester

 

2006

22

SS 528: Specification for Personal fall-arrest systems

Part 5: Connectors with self-closing and self-locking gates

 

2006

23

SS 528: Specification for Personal fall-arrest systems

Part 6: System performance tests

 

2006

24

SS 531: Code of Practice for Lighting of work places

Part 1: Indoor

 

2006

25

SS 531: Code of Practice for Lighting of work places

Part 2: Outdoor

 

2008

26

SS 531: Code of Practice for Lighting of work places

Part 3: Lighting requirements for safety and security of

outdoor work places

 

2008

27

SS 532: Code of Practice for The storage of flammable

liquids

 

2007

28

SS 536: Code of Practice for The safe use of mobile cranes

(Formerly CP 37)

 

2008

29

SS 537: Code of Practice for Safe use of machinery

Part 1: General requirements

 

2008

30

SS 537: Code of Practice for Safe use of machinery

Part 2: Woodworking machinery

 

2008

31

SS 541: Restraint belts

Amendment 1 (2012)

 

2008

32

SS 548: Code of Practice for Selection, use, and

maintenance of respiratory protective devices

(Formerly CP 74)

 

2009

33

SS 549: Code of Practice for Selection, use, care and

maintenance of hearing protectors

(Formerly CP 76)

 

2009

34

SS 550: Code of Practice for Installation, operation and

maintenance of electric passenger and goods lifts

(Formerly CP 2)

 

2009

35

SS 553: Code of Practice for Air-conditioning and

mechanical ventilation in buildings

(Formerly CP 13)

 

2009

36

SS 554: Code of Practice for Indoor air quality for

air-conditioned buildings

 

2009

37

SS 557: Code of Practice for Demolition

(Formerly CP 11)

 

2010

38

SS 559: Code of Practice for Safe use of tower cranes

(Formerly CP 62)

 

2010

39

SS 562: Code of Practice for Safety in trenches, pits and

other excavated areas

 

2010

40

SS 567: 2011 Code of Practice for Factory layout —

Safety, health and welfare considerations

(Formerly CP 27)

 

2011

41

SS 568: 2011 Code of Practice for Confined spaces

(Formerly CP 84)

 

2011

42

SS 569: Code of Practice for Manual handling

(Formerly CP 92)

 

2011

43

SS 570: Specification for Personal protective equipment

for protection against falls from a height — Single point

anchor devices and flexible horizontal lifeline systems

 

2011

44
 SS 571: Code of Practice for Energy lockout and tagout
(Formerly CP 91)

 

2011

45

SS 573: Code of Practice for The safe use of powered

counterbalanced forklifts

(Formerly CP 101)

 

2012

46

SS 586: Specification for Hazard communication for

hazardous chemicals and dangerous goods

Part 1: Transport and storage of dangerous goods

 

2008

47

SS 586: Specification for Hazard communication for

hazardous chemicals and dangerous goods

Part 2: Globally harmonised system of classification and

labelling of chemicals — Singapore’s adaptations

 

2008

48

SS 586: Specification for Hazard communication for

hazardous chemicals and dangerous goods

Part 3: Preparation of safety data sheets (SDS)

 

2008

49

CP 5: Code of Practice for Electrical installations

Amendment 1 (2008)

 

1998

50

CP 14: Code of Practice for Scaffolds

 

1996

51

CP 20: Code of Practice for Suspended scaffolds

 

1999

52

CP 23: Code of Practice for Formwork

 

2000

53

CP 63: Code of Practice for The lifting of persons in

work platforms suspended from cranes

 

1996 (2005)

 

54

CP 79: Code of Practice for Safety management system

for construction worksites

 

1999

55

CP 88: Code of Practice for Temporary electrical

installations

Part 1: Construction and building sites

 

2001

56

CP 88: Code of Practice for Temporary electrical

installations

Part 3: Shipbuilding and ship-repairing yards

 

2004